Best award winning movies with eminent directing from 1970

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with eminent directing from 1970! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with eminent directing from 1970, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Patton (1970)

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.

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1970-01-25 | War / Drama

Cast

George C. Scott, Stephen Young

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #36 for
    deservedly won awards
  2. Ranked #55 for
    hard-nosed
  3. Ranked #55 for
    hagiography

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2 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

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1970-10-16 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan

Rating

rating icon 8.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #58 for
    orwellian
  2. Ranked #160 for
    extraordinary
  3. Ranked #165 for
    flashback sequence

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3 Love Story (1970)

Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail.

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1970-12-16 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal

Rating

rating icon 6.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #68 for
    critically acclaimed
  2. Ranked #71 for
    mawkish
  3. Ranked #73 for
    crowd-pleaser

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4 Five Easy Pieces (1970)

A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.

Info

1970-09-12 | Drama

Cast

Jack Nicholson, Karen Black

Rating

rating icon 7.136
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #25 for
    blue-collar
  2. Ranked #128 for
    smug
  3. Ranked #190 for
    iconoclast

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5 Ryan's Daughter (1970)

The wife of an Irish school teacher is branded a traitor when she falls for a British officer who is part of an occupying force in 1917 Ireland.

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1970-03-19 | Romance / History

Cast

Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard

Rating

rating icon 7.102
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #41 for
    good girl
  2. Ranked #71 for
    stoic
  3. Ranked #71 for
    tetchy

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6 Tristana (1970)

As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horatio is doomed.

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1970-03-29 | Drama

Cast

Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #99 for
    decadent
  2. Ranked #162 for
    impressionistic
  3. Ranked #172 for
    social realism

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7 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with its lovely grounds, and try to keep the rest of the world at bay. But tensions between them all grow as anti-Semitism rises in Fascist Italy, and even the Finzi-Continis will have to confront the Holocaust.

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1970-12-04 | Drama / History

Cast

Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #55 for
    neo-realism
  2. Ranked #96 for
    unrequited love
  3. Ranked #121 for
    life and limb story

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8 Airport (1970)

Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.

Info

1970-05-29 | Action / Drama

Cast

Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #46 for
    antiquated
  2. Ranked #48 for
    afterschool special
  3. Ranked #49 for
    Disaster Movie

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9 Little Big Man (1970)

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.

Info

1970-12-14 | Adventure / Western

Cast

Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway

Rating

rating icon 7.528
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #18 for
    westernized
  2. Ranked #60 for
    vainglorious
  3. Ranked #70 for
    hubristic

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10 Cromwell (1970)

Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.

Info

1970-09-16 | Drama / History

Cast

Richard Harris, Alec Guinness

Rating

rating icon 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #99 for
    historical point of view
  2. Ranked #136 for
    true representation
  3. Ranked #138 for
    realistic portrayal

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